03-18-25 - 5G SBP Bi-Weekly Status Meeting

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Meeting Zoom Link: 

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/95015184719?password=d1ed6d85-060e-4349-a4f4-0bcbafebdcf0

Meeting start time: 1600 UTC

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Agenda:

• Antitrust

• Reminder to sign in on attendance table

• Welcome 1st Time Attendees

• TSC Updates

• Project Updates

• Upcoming Events

• Upcoming Meetings

• Any Other Business

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LF Anti-trust

Antitrust Policy

Welcome 1st Time Attendees

Welcome all. new attendees. If you have any questions about participating in this community, please contact Louis Illuzzi (lilluzzi@linuxfoundation.org).

5G Super Blueprint Overview and Getting Started

TSC Updates

• TSC wiki

• Current sitting TSC:

Open

• TSC Meeting Notes

  • Mar 17, 2025 TSC meeting highlights.

    • Improve on messaging when presenting projects to other groups, i.e. TAC, other TSCs, SECCOM, events, etc.

    • Have a well defined value prop and business opportunity

    • Have clear and concise Call to Action, and suggested actions for the audience.

Next TSC Meeting Mar 31, 2025 , 7am PT/11am ET, https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96312795073?password=f9f7ab55-a030-49ce-9b95-5b12fc4ef1cb

Meeting is open to all.

TSC self-nomination/nominations are open in perpetuity. Contributors of current integration projects are encouraged to join the TSC, at least for the time while there project is in development, to help guide the program. Potential to combine TSC and bi-weekly status call.

Project Updates:

Joint LFN/LF Edge Use Case- Application Centric Connectivity- Led by AnyLog and Moshe

Outreach is underway-

• Presentation to ONAP SECCOM occurred on 03/11

• Presentation to ONAP TSC occurred on 03/13

• Member summit presentation on 03/20 by Moshe

• Presentation to Telus scheduled for 03/24

• LFN TAC- pending Moshe availability

• Presentation to Orange Fraud and Security group/GSMA - pending @eric aquaronne to lead

• Webinar - pending. LFN marketing is in on this.

• Present to Beth Cohen who might be able to get it in front of Verizon decision makers.

• What does follow-up look like?

  • Call to action to contact there internal teams to get the information to the decision makers.

  • Build stronger messaging and call to action/suggested actions.

  • Individual follow-up with service providers reps from ONAP TSC.

    • @LJ Illuzzi to draft a few paragraphs, then we can wordsmith

• Next project meeting Mar 25, 2025. Meeting logistics:

  • 1700 UTC / 9am PT / 12noon ET

  • https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/95506273491?password=9c574290-7bf6-4c5b-80b1-8fca19701e5c

Reference Open Source Testbed - Led by UNH InterOperability Laboratory and Lincoln

• Upcoming Blog Spotlight on 5G SBP Use Case

• Presentation to ONAP SECCOM occurred on March 04

  • Meeting Notes

  • https://oss.iol.unh.edu/o-ran/oran-testbeds  - the first release of the ansible playbooks for the blueprint

    • @Lincoln Lavoie Can this be entered into the 5G SBP Library?

      • @LJ Illuzzi to draft a Library entry and review with Lincoln

• Next Steps:

  • Opportunity for Accuknox to contribute security attributes (@Raj to bring internal).@Muddasar Ahmed to reach out to Rajul

    • What is required from Accuknox? What are the benefits? @Muddasar Ahmed . Muddasar spoke with Rahul. Pending @Rahul assessment.

  • Look at HEXAeBPF. What is the fit? eUPF? @SHANKAR MALIK to review test bed proposal

  • Add Backlog (Nephio) to Use Case for tracking purposes @Lincoln Lavoie

  • Add Roadmap section @Lincoln Lavoie

5G Quality on Demand - Led by Infosys and Ganesh

• Presentation from 02/04:

Next Steps

• Working on Nephio updates.

  • Ganesh/Amit to provide a project readout once completed.

• Camara project tie-in around quality on demand capabilities.

• Look at SABREs, Dr Eric Klien- ressearch paper

  • Link to SABREs

HEXAeBPF - Led by CoranLabs and Shankar

Overview: HEXAeBPF is a Kubernetes Operator that changes how open-source 5G core networks are set up and managed. It integrates and automates the deployment of the Control Plane (CP) from Vendor A and the eBPF-based User Plane (eUP) from Vendor B. This makes it easy to set up and manage 5G labs with minimal effort.

New Release:

• LinkedIn Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ngkore_hexaebpf-the-future-of-interoperable-ebpf-activity-7305845365449113601-aZB6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADwvjWgBKIHnk_bFNrMjK6HFjQsUvE1mibc

• Demo Video: HEXAeBPF: The Future of Interoperable eBPF Defined 5G Core (eDC)

Upcoming:

• Blog on HEXAeBPF

• 5G SBP Library entry

• Cross promote Blog and Library

  • @LJ Illuzzi draft Library entry then review with Shankar.

• Aether tie-in

QORE: Quantumized 5G Core - Led by CoranLabs and Shankar

• Updated slides :

  • @SHANKAR MALIK Add summary slide with Call to Action at the end.

  • @SHANKAR MALIK consider writing a Whitepaper

  • Next Steps:

    • Presentation to ONAP SECCOM scheduled for 03/25

    • Presentation to ONAP PTL and/or TSC pending

    • Develop a message. Call out suggested actions.

      • Provide guidance on crypto migration

    • Can Open Source Reference Implementation for Post Quantum Telecom Network be put into the 5G SBP repo, and then into the 5G SBP Library. Pending above work

Indian Open-Source Software Platform for end-to-end Mobile Communication Networks - Project Lead- Sridhar Rao

• Next Steps

  • @LJ Illuzzi to request a project readout from Sridhar and team

Upstreaming to Nephio

• Security goals discussed with the LFN TAC (from SECOM)

  • TAC security hardening efforts

  • Bring in Amy for feedback

  • Nephio road show (what is the pitch?, What are the alignment points?). Can 5G SBP efforts be included in Nephio on a permanent basis? What permanent features can be included in Nephio?

    • Next Steps:

      • Action Items:

        • @LJ Illuzzi Create a 5G SBP Use Case Page

        • Develop a pitch/discussion points. Reference: Library and existing Use Cases in flight.

        • @LJ Illuzzi get on a Nephio TSC agenda

• Changes to Nephio API (Ganesh). potential merge into Nephio roadmap.

• Nephio SIG looking at ambient MESH, and and also to see if they can incorpate spiffe workload identity.

• Next Steps for the SIG-

  • Rahul looking into opportunity.

  • Define what architecture they will follow

  • Determine if it can provide security use case using Nephio to orchestrate security controls, meaning they can deploy the proxy. And can deploy the ambient mesh, or it can deploy on spire server and agent.

• Action Item: @Muddasar Ahmed to reach out to the security group for update and applicability to 5G SBP.

  • Look at Nephio Backlog/roadmap for capability deliveries

  • Nephio is a potential phase 2 in the CI/CD/CT testbed (UNH)

Intent Driven Orchestration for an Autonomous 5G Network - Led by China Mobile and Keguang He, Infosys and Praveen Kumar Kalapatapu

• @Ganesh Narayan (Deactivated) reached out to Keguang on 01/07 for updates and requested a meeting. No responce.

• Next meeting is TBD

Aether Blueprints - Cross Promotion

• Next Steps:

  • Cross-promotion / cross-reference.

    • Proposal to link Aether Blueprints on Library page.

• Action Item: @LJ Illuzzi to contact Larry Peterson (Aether TST chair) to discuss cross promotion and HEXAeBPF inclusion. (LJ, Larry, Ranny, Jennifer, Shankar).

• Reference Aether Blueprints presentation from 09/03- Aether-Blueprints.pdf

Upcoming Events

Open Networking & Edge Summit, hosted at EXCEL London on Monday, March 31. This is the same venue where KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU will take place, beginning April 1. 

• This is a business/strategy focused event with a 100% curated agenda

• 8am - 5 pm

• Separate registration from KubeCon

LFN just issued a press release to announce the near-final speaker/session line-up for Open Networking & Edge Summit. Please take a look at both the PR and the updated agenda. This year's lineup is one of the best yet, with a broad representation of thought leaders from across the globe and across organizations (including from this group - thank you!)

Please spread the word about the event across your organizations and professional networks; here is a 20% Friends and Family discount code that you are welcome to share with your networks: ONE2520D

Cloud Native Telco Day, officially a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon co-located event on Tuesday, April 1,  at EXCEL London

• Half-day 

• Developer / tech focused

• Add-on to KubeCon registration

• LFN's KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU sponsorship enables us to host Cloud Native Telco Day. LFN will have a booth onsite at the main KC + CNC show floor,  April 2-4. 

  Call to Action- LFN is looking for community members to help staff the booth, as well as project or collaborative demos that we can showcase in the booth.

Upcoming Meetings

• Mar 25, 2025 Project update on Application Centric Connectivity, 1700 UTC

• Mar 31, 2025 TSC Meeting

• Apr 1, 2025 Bi-weekly Status Review meeting

Any Other Business

• Eric asking about contacts at Orange. @Muddasar Ahmed has a contact via GSMA - Complete/Remove

----- Back Burner Projects ---------

Outreach

• Sylvia/5G SBP alignment (Aug LFN Board meeting)

• How do we reach out to other communities?

  • Add table of projects and capabilities. Find intersects with community project capabilies and 5G SBP project capabilities. Add community TSC chairs/contacts, architecture leads.

  • Get TAC input

• What capabilities exist?

• What avenues are available for outreach?

  • Reach out to Use Case/architect/TSCs teams. Present 5G SBP overview and benefits

  • messaging- hackathon-like

• Leverage events more- develop a promo package

Lab in a box - parked this until CI/CD/CT Open Source O-RAN Testbed takes form

• UNH is targeting integration testing

• Tie into Aether Blueprints

• Potential for a "Core in a Box" -can benefit 5G/6G research

  • Next Steps:

    • User Story- 5G Researcher can deploy 5G Core and 5G RAN in one day. The more scripting that can be included the less setup time needed by research team.

    • Licensing- as components are identified consult with LF Legal for "In a box" usage.

    • Marketing opportunity (Aarna and UNH)

Orchestration of OAI Core and Amarisoft gNB with Nephio - Yogen/Vikas (Aarna Networks)

Next Steps:

• Evolve to Nephio

• (Yogen) New project requirements/gaps- Configure controller with default radio values such that radios have default parameters settings such that they can start radiating immediately.

• Nephio using Free5GC core and working on OAI. ONE Summit demo shows Open5GS (Lincoln)

• Is there collaboration opportunity with new UNH project?

Simplified E2E Network Slicing -Yogen (Aarna)

• Simplified Slicing repo; use Aarna repo for now

• Bring in OAI stack

• Next Steps:
  
  

  • 5G SBP: Orchestration of OAI Core and Amarisoft gNB with EMCO

  • Slice selection within Edge Site Selection and Placement use case

  • Any other roadmapped items?

SABRES: Slice Selection, Path Validation, Multiparty Management - Lincoln Thurlow. (USC/ICI)

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  • Agreement with the Linux Foundation has ended

  • All code commited to LF repos will remain intact and continue to be updated through at least Sept2024

    • https://github.com/openfheorg/openfhe-development
      https://github.com/orgs/sabres-lfproject/repositories

  • Open source license is BSD3

  • A demo on Constraint-based search is created; needs legal approval to make available

  • Lumen technologies will act as distributor

  • What existing capabiliites can be included/added to the 5G Super Blueprint Library? Constraint-based search, demo

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  • Next Steps:

    • Improve algorithms for constraint based search

    • Path validation with a different proof algorithm to improve the performance

    • Inclusion into 5G SBP Library

      • Scope: Constraint-based search, Can be done where RAN and other resources are deployed on a 5G network. If there are any contraints, for example disk space or CPU latency, and have a placement problem, thats where SABREs shines. The demo shows constraint-based search

    • Legal approval is needed to release the demo

--------- Reference material below --------

5G Super Blueprint Library -

• Page opened for viewing- send comments to lilluzzi@linuxfoundation.org

• Proposal to add a column for higher level network function associated with each entry, example; slicing, security, UPF integration, IoT (visual inspection), etc.

• Marketing Plan

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    • The goal is that each completed project get the same marketing treatment (i.e. Marketing Plan execution) where the technology is highligthed and the participants and contributing companies are recognized.

5G Super Blueprint Whitepaper

Documentation - Deliverables to the 5G SBP

From Use Case Template:

• Create a template for documentation collateral

• Playbook-like theme

• YouTube - independent of any D&TF YouTube postings, but cross-linked